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Tilanne ei ole niin huono kuin tältä osin saattaisi vaikuttaa, sillä uusimmassa Motif XS 88:ssa mLAN (IEEE1394) on vakiona! XS:iin on myös juuri (tammikuussa 2007) julkistettu uusi mLAN16E2-kortti.
 
Tämä vuosi onkin alkanut lupaavasti mLANin käyttäjien kannalta. 01x on nyt saatavilla vaikka F-Musiikista todella edullisesti samoin kuin i88x, sikäli kuin sellaisen pystyy enää löytämään. Sen valmistus on lopetettu markkinoiden epäkypsyyden vuoksi, sillä kyseessä oli erittäin tasokas mutta ilmeisesti liian kallis tai vaativa laite. Jos sellaista tarvitsee, on hintojen puolesta nyt toki hyvä hankintahetki aikaisempaan verrattuna. Luultavasti on tulossa jotain vaatimattomampia ja toisaalta isompia mLan-sovelluksia, mutta siihen voi mennä vuosi tai useampikin. Tehokkaan ja kätevän mLan-liitännän soisi korvaavan MIDI-, USB- yms. liitännät vaikka kokonaan. Sillä on potentiaalia vaikka liikkuvan kuvan tuotantoon - musiikin ohella. Pohjautuuhan mLAN nopeaan Firewireen: http://www.yamahasynth.com/products/mlan/index.html
 
Pinnan alla tapahtuu tällä hetkellä paljon, sillä Yamaha on luvannut julkaista mm. mLAN-ajurit myös Windows Vistaan:
http://www.yamahasynth.com/download/win_vista/index.html
 
Yamaha announces takeover of mLAN driver development for Mac
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"January 12 th 2007 , Hammamatsu , Japan : Responding to continued speculation about the future of mLAN driver development for the Mac platform Yamaha Corporation has released the following statement on 01xRay.com:
 
Dear valued customers,
 
With regard to mLAN, which YAMAHA Corporation has proposed to the industry and promoted, we appreciate that many customers are enjoying its convenience under the Windows environment.
 
As many of you have acknowledged and those who run Intel-based Macs can experience for yourself, on the Windows OS, mLAN is very stable and a vast majority of end users are satisfied with its performance.
 
As for mLAN on the Mac OS X environment, however, we recognize that some of the performance does not satisfy specific use-cases. In the future, in order to assume more responsibility for the driver's performance and release timetables, the mLAN driver development for the 01X, i88x, mLAN16e and MY16 mLAN will be handled by YAMAHA's own software engineering team and some mLAN driver releases will be done by YAMAHA.
 
At this time, we are not able to give a definite timetable for release of a new mLAN driver for MAC OS X as we are currently conducting detailed technical investigations to determine the requirements of the new work we must do.
 
Our current target is for YAMAHA to release its own mLAN driver update for Mac OS X in the summer of 2007 with a major improvement. However this release will probably not include all the improvements we would like to achieve so it will be followed by a series of driver updates as YAMAHA continues it's on going effort to provide the best possible end user experience for our customers.
 
We have been as open and honest with you in informing you of our current situation. We feel that this open and honest communication is the first step in the process of convincing you that YAMAHA is committed to supporting our customers in an ethical and positive manner. We sincerely appreciate your kind understanding and patience in this matter. "
 
http://www.americanmusical.com/item--i-YAM-MOTIFXS6.html
http://www.mlancentral.com/mlan_info/current_prod.php
http://www.sonicstate.com/news/shownews.cfm?newsid=1739
http://namm.harmony-central.com/SNA … 04/Content/Yamaha/PR/MY16-mLAN.html
http://www.sonicstate.com/news/shownews.cfm?newsid=4185
 
Uudentyyppinen 01x-softa:
http://www.01xray.com/store/frame_matrixmixer.htm